WPRI.com Updated: Friday, 12 Apr 2013, 5:52 PM EDT Published : Friday, 12 Apr 2013, 2:23 PM EDT

• By Angie Angers
• Reporting By Chantee Lans
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  CUMBERLAND, R.I. (WPRI) – A Cumberland 3rd grader and his family are getting a surprise vacation to New Hampshire, thanks to a classmate’s selfless and inspiring gesture.

  Tyler Chobanian entered an essay contest as a part of a statewide after school program. The topic of the essay was to explain why your family should win a free vacation. The 9-year-old decided that he was going to take a different approach to this essay writing contest, and wrote about why his classmate’s family should win the free trip.

Wunderground.com - 4/11/13, Ben Fox and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez

PATILLAS, Puerto Rico -- A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave.

Peeps, tweets and staccato whistles fill the air, a pulsing undercurrent in the tropical night. To the untrained ear, it's just a mishmash of noise. To experts tracking a decline in amphibians with growing alarm, it's like a symphony in which some of the players haven't been showing up.

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TEHRAN, Iran – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials said, adding that it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region.

The report said the earthquake struck the town of Kaki some 60 miles southeast of Bushehr, a town on the Persian Gulf that is home of Iran's first nuclear power plant, built with Russian help.

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Huffington Post Posted April 6, 2013

For some guys, being a dad to two little girls means losing your freedom to go out and rage. However, you could be like the star of this 30-second clip who takes his daughters out to the ballgame and breaks it the hell down in the stands. Luckily for him, neither girl seems to have reached the age where Dad Dancing inspires eye rolls and whining -- and their adorable efforts to keep up with Dad's disco-meets-breakdancing moves make the performance even more special.

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